The Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition is the largest environmental health coalition in the country, with over 300 coalition partners representing millions of individuals including parents, health professionals, advocates for people with learning and developmental disabilities, reproductive health advocates, environmentalists and businesses from across the nation. The coalition is united by their common concern about toxic chemicals in our homes, places of work, and products we use every day.

The Breast Cancer Fund works to prevent breast cancer by eliminating exposure to toxic chemicals and radiation linked to the disease. The organization translates the growing body of scientific evidence linking breast cancer and environmental exposures into public education and advocacy campaigns that protect health and reduce breast cancer risk. The Breast Cancer Fund is also a founding member and national coordinator of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a broad-based coalition working to eliminate dangerous chemicals from cosmetics and personal care products.

The Ecology Center is a Michigan-based nonprofit environmental organization that works at the local, state, and national levels for clean production, healthy communities, environmental justice, and a sustainable future through grassroots organizing, advocacy, education, and demonstration projects. One of The Ecology Center’s major programs is HealthyStuff.org, which researches consumer product chemical hazards to promote chemical policy reform.

Healthy Child Healthy World’s mission is to empower parents to take action and protect children from harmful chemicals. By working with manufacturers and supporting policy initiatives, Healthy Child has helped to transform the marketplace to encourage safer environments for children. For the past 20 years, Healthy Child has provided access to critical information that encourages smarter lifestyle choices to reduce toxic chemical exposure in homes and communities and communities to become a trusted resource for parents. Healthy Child’s vision is a world where every child has the opportunity to grow up in a healthy and safe environment.

Why these products?

All of the products in our Safe Products Guides have been vetted by an independent advisory board consisting of scientists, green chemists, members of non-profit organizations working for safer chemicals and green product bloggers.

Our goal with creating these guides is to include products that are:

Safe: Products that avoid known chemicals of concern

Findable: Products that are widely available at stores or online via Vine.com

Affordable: Products that can be found at all price points

We are not saying that these are the only safe products on the market. But we are saying that this is a good, simple place to start. Take the first step…Switch to Safer.

Who are the members of the advisory board?

Connie Engel is an expert on the conjunction of science and advocacy in the environmental breast cancer movement. She is the Science and Education Manager for the Breast Cancer Fund.

Sarah Janssen is a physician specializing in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She serves on the executive board of San Francisco Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility, is an Assistant Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine and a staff physician at Kaiser Permanente, Northern California. She was a past Senior Scientist for the NRDC, where she provided scientific expertise for policy and regulatory decisions on a number of toxic chemicals.

Lauren Heine, PhD is Co-Director of Clean Production Action. She co-authored the GreenScreen™ for Safer Chemicals and applies green chemistry, green engineering and design for the environment for sustainable business practices.

Bruce Akers is a Green Chemist who has been formulating Natural Products for over 20 years, and has brought well over a hundred of his formulations to market. He has been a Director of R&D for EO Products, and Method. He has been on the advisory board of numerous NGOs in regards to product safety, and has been involved in the development of many of the industries most used standards.

Adria Vasil is the bestselling author of Ecoholic, Ecoholic Home and Ecoholic Body. She has been writing the weekly Ecoholic column for a decade. Prior to being a journalist, she worked as a researcher in the non-profit world investigating corporate practices.

Danielle Messina is a young breast cancer survivor, clean beauty advocate and author of green beauty blog, The Glamorganic Goddess. She's also the Healthy Beauty Advisor for Unite For HER, a regular contributor to LuckyMag.com, and consults for natural beauty brands, retailers, salons and organizations.